Shampoo garment



May 11, 1937.

S. J. BRANDSTEIN SHAMPOO GARMENT Filed Feb. 24,1936

ATTORNEY.

Patented May 11, 1937 assert? SHAMPOO GARMENT Samuel J. Brandstein, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application February 24, 1936, Serial No. 65,222

2 Claims.

This invention relates to devices such as garments, and has particular reference to shampoo garments and to means for mounting the same.

One object of the invention is the provision of a garment of the type that may be termed a shampoo garment, or for otherwise protecting the wearers apparel, and having improved means including portions that can be passed around the neck of the wearer into an overlapped formation at the top portion of the back to completely cover the shoulders, with the garment covering the front of the wearers apparel and being so free and fully open or cut away at the back as to avoid obstruction and permit the comfortable seating of the person in a chair, and the garment having means for so mounting the same on the wearer at the region of the neck of the latter.

Another object of the invention is to provide a garment of the type mentionedincluding contractile means in improved association with the garment to permit the latter to be mounted on and taken off from the wearer with a single movement, whereby the use of buttons, pins and the like may be avoided.

Differently stated, according to this invention, a garment which completely extends around wearers of different sizes is by an improved resilient means caused to be adjustably engaged around the wearers neck virtually automatically with the placing of the garment around the wearer.

Another object of the invention is to provide a garment of the class alluded to wherein a round split spring is snugly engageable around necks of different sizes for mounting the garment in substantially sealing relation with the neck.

Since the range in neck sizes is rather large,

the spring, if snug on small necks, may be uncomfortably tight on large necks.

Nor may the spring be so weak as to fail to properly hold the garment in place.

Hence it is an object of the invention to provide improved resilient means having sufficient strength or stiffness for reliably mounting a garment, and yet to be adapted to snugly yet comfortably embrace all different sizes of necks, where the resilient means is preferably operative without movable connections or fasteners, which require time for manipulation, and increase the cost of manufacture and are liable to catch on a portion of the garment or to fail to operate as required.

More specifically, an object of the invention is to furnish a resilient structure adapted to engage around the neck and comprising a plurality of generally annular portions, one snugly sealingly engaging the neck and the other being a holding means spaced from the neck, the resilient structure affording that degree of strength required to hold the garment reliably in place, and the sealing portion being so weak as to comfortably engage necks of different sizes.

It will be noted that the neck structure of the 10 garment must be maintained relatively small and comp-act so as not to obstruct free access to the neck region of the wearer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the type mentioned having rell2.) atively few and simple parts and which is adapted for inexpensive manufacture on a quantity production basis, and which is neat in appearance, compact, durable, reliable, rapid and eflicient in use. 0

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangernents of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the sev- 3U eral views.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation showing a device embodying the invention as applied to the wearer. 35

Fig. 2 is a view in rear elevation thereof, showing a modified neck portion.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a blank for making the device.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the completed device.

Fig. 5 is a plan View of the spring element thereof.

Fig. 6 is a plan view showing a modified form of the invention.

Fig. '7 is a sectional View taken on the line 'll of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic top plan view showing the spring structure thereof with the adjacent portions of the garment in dot dash lines.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view in elevation with a part in section showing another modification of the invention.

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary top plan view of the same in expanded condition.

The advantages of the invention as here out-- lined are best realized whenall of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, useful devices may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated in several difierent constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplification of the invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, ll denotes a device embodying the invention. The same may include a garment of any suitable type that may be worn by a person under different conditions. For certain general types of garment the quick opening and closing adjustable mounting feature may be of advantage. In garments such as those intended for use on a person who is receiving a shampoo, the additional sealing feature for the neck is desirable. Hence I have chosen to illustrate the invention as embodied in a shampoo garment.

The device I! may consist of a one piece sheet of material l2 which may be of generally rectangular form, and which may have at one end a neck receiving opening l3 spaced from the edges of the blank, said opening being connected by an elongated opening or slit M with an adjacent end edge l5 of the blank. The margins of the latter may be continuously reenforced as by a hem l6 which may extend along the edges of the slit l4 up to the neck opening l3.

The blank [2 provides a garment having lateral wings such as 51 adapted to be drawn together around the neck, with portions of said wings overlapping each other in closure relation as at 18. According as the neck size is larger or smaller the degree of overlap is correspondingly smaller or larger. The contour of the opening defined between the closure wings may be varied. By providing the opening !3 and slit l4, material is conserved, and ample overlap afforded, with the garment adapted to lie neat. Further the garment in the worn position thereof provides a cut away configuration at the back as indicated at l9 so as to avoid interference or obstruction when the wearer is seated in a chair. This arrangement is accomplished in a simple manner as by positioning the opening 13 near one end of the garment.

A suitable means is provided for maintaining the garment drawn snug around the wearer's neck at the opening [3 thereof. While buttons and the like may be used, they are not as desirable as the particular means herein provided, since they require manipulation and may be ripped oif in hurriedly removing the garment.

My novel mounting means is of a contractile type which can be opened and closed around the neck in applying and removing the garment. Preferably, the means referred to is automatic in closing or engaging action. Hence I employ a resilient means such as a leaf spring 20 of generally annular form and having overlapping end portions 2|. Said spring may be housed i a hem portion 22 of the garment as shown in Fig. l, which hem portion extends continuously along the edge of the opening 13 from one edge of the slit M to the other edge thereof. With this spring embodied in the garment, the latter assumes the character shown at 23 in Fig. 4, with the overlap l8 normally maintained, and the opening !3 being contracted to the size shown at 24 for snugly sealingly engaging around a neck of relatively small size. For a neck of larger size, the spring may contract to a lesser degree.

To engage necks of widely varying sizes, the spring 20 may be made of a material having a relatively low elastic limit, so that it can be deformed to a normally larger or smaller diameter, so that it will not engage such necks either too tightly or too loosely.

The spring 2!! constitutes the sole means for mounting the garment, and it also maintains the wings I! in closing overlapped relation, and the garment may so closely engage around the neck as to protect the wearers apparel against leakage of soap and water.

At 25 is shown a modified garment embodying the invention. The same may include a resilient structure 26 comprising a plurality of elastic portions or springs 27, 28 of different diameters. The smaller spring 21 is relatively weak and causes the garment to sealingly engage around the neck. The larger spring 28 is normally spaced from the neck and holds the garment in place thereon. In other respects the structure 26 is generally like that indicated at 22. For example, the garment may form a hem portion 29 around the spring 28. A band or collar portion 30 may extend annularly around both of the springs, a line of stitching 3| holding the spring 21 therein, and a line of stitching 32 securing the part 30 to the garment and serving to fix the position of the spring 28.

It may be noted that the sealing spring 21 is axially above the holding spring 28 to afford a flexible interconnecting annular portion 33 therebetween, since the spring 21 is adjustable for necks 27a, of different sizes, while the spring 28 has a normally fixed diameter. With this arrangement, the larger spring, being lower down, is further removed from the hair and scalp. 7

The springs 21, 28 may be of like stiffness and supplement each other to permit reliable mounting of the garment. Hence the neck sealing spring need have only one-half the strength or tension in engaging around a neck of large size. However, the spring 28 may be substantially stiffer than the companion spring 21, in which case the latter may have a rather gentle sealing action.

The holding spring 28 may have a substantially lesser degree of overlap than that of the sealing spring. Therefore the holding spring may terminate well within the ends of the hem or collar structure.

In use to remove the garment, the operator may merely pull on the garment at the neck region for removing the same, both springs 21, 28 expanding at the same time. In applying the garment to the wearer, the springs are simultaneously engaged in holding position about the neck in the operation of mounting the garment. Desirably, the springs are positioned spaced above the shoulders to avoid pull on and discomfort at the shoulders.

At 35 is shown another modification of the invention including a neck sealing means such as a strip of elastic material 36 connected in stretched condition along a lower edge 31 to the neck opening of the garment along the adjacent sealing spring, the upper portion 38 of said strip being unsupported so as to flare inward into sealing contact with the skin of the wearer. This feature may be used in devices 23 and 25, and exemplifies a different form of a resilient structure comprising a plurality of resilient parts one of which causes the garment to sealingly engage the neck, and the other such as 20, 2'! or 28 aifording a holding means. However, in the device 35, the resilient portion is supported on the com panion resilient portion, and is weaker than the latter.

The garment may be made of various mate rials. For shampoo purposes, it should be waterproof and may consist of a so called oiled silk.

It will be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be made in the device as shown in the drawing, and that the same is submitted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the invention being defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. A device including a garment having a portion providing a neck receiving portion, an annular resilient element extending along and connected to said portion, the latter and said element being split so that said portion can be opened upon springing said element to thus receive the neck of the wearer, with said element contracting to maintain the said portion engaged about the neck, and a portion of relatively elastic material extending annularly along the resilient element and continuously engaged with the neck receiving portion substantially from end to end thereof and along one edge of the elastic portion in stretched condition of the latter along said edge, said resilient element maintaining said elastic portion stretched along said edge thereof, and the elastic portion being freely elastically contracted along its other edge so as to flare inward of the neck receiving portion to snugly embrace the wearers neck.

2. A garment having a neck receiving open portion, a contractile split spring extending along and connected thereto for mounting said portion around the neck, and an open generally annular elastic element extending along and carried by said spring and having a normally smaller diameter than the latter, said portion, spring and element being mountable and removable as a unit under control of the spring, with the latter causing the element to snugly embrace the neck.

SAMUEL J. BRANDSTEIN. 

